Just World Books - specializes in publishing blogs

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Greetings - here are the links above (please note that I posted them correctly - they are "hot" links! yay!) for the Just World Books that I mentioned during our class yesterday.  Helena Cobban, the publisher, specializes in publishing collection of blog entries into books and it makes great reading! 

Here is an excerpt below from an interview with the publisher, Helena Cobban:
Q. How has your experience as a longtime blogger at Just World News informed the philosophy of Just World Books?

Helena: Well, I loved blogging from the moment I started doing it back in early 2003. I was doing it then during a period where a lot of people started blogging about international affairs, and it became a global community. There’s this wonderful guy, Reidar Visser, who’s Norwegian, who writes about Iraq, and there’s Juan Cole in Michigan, and then there are people in the Middle East, in China, in Africa – all around the world – writing about international affairs in a completely new way: almost real-time conversations about what’s going on. As I was doing this, I noticed that there was some fine analysis and writing on blogs: really up-to-the-minute, immediate, vivid, and well-informed. [But] you read it and then it gets packed down in the archives…So one of the things that I did when I founded Just World Books in 2010 was to make some of that fine writing more easily accessible to people by pulling it out of the archives, putting it in a forward chronological order, and actually working with the writers themselves to “curate” their work. I think I’m one of the first people in the world of text to use the term curating for what my writers do, which is exactly analogous to what the curator of a museum exhibit does. You take a series of pieces and compose them, either thematically or chronologically, and add a little explanation of what’s going on, that frames and gives meaning to the texts that follow...
I found this to be really powerful – as soon as our writers started rearranging their pieces in a chronological order, then you got a narrative, a sustained argument that is not necessarily easily discernible if you just read one of the pieces, or if you read one piece today, and one piece tomorrow, and a piece next week. In each case, we’ve ended up with a wonderful final text that is a whole lot more than the sum of the parts... And it also encourages writers to take their own blogged oeuvres more seriously.

An example of one of Just World's Publications -- Gaza Mom

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Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between

by Laila El-Haddad

Publication date: November 15, 2010

With Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between, El-Haddad takes us into the life and world of a busy Palestinian journalist who is both covering the story of Gaza and living it—very intensely. This book is El-Haddad’s self-curated choice of the best of her writings from December 2004 through July 2010. She was in Gaza City in 2005, watching hopefully as the Israelis prepared their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. She covered the January 2006 Palestinian elections—judged ‘free and fair’ by all international monitors. But then, she watched aghast as the Israeli government, backed by the Bush administration, moved in to punish Gaza’s 1.5 million people for the way they had voted by throwing a tough siege around the Strip.